THE ALASKAN A Comic Opera in 2 Acts and a Prologue. Book by Max Figman and Joseph Blethen. Music by Harry Girard. Lyrics by Joseph Blethen. Knickerbocker Theatre, New York - 12 August - 7 September, 1907 (29 perfs). MUSICAL NUMBERS (Vocal Score) 1. Prologue and Act I - On the trail in midwinter, and Long Chance Creek, near Nome, in Summer. 2. Opening Chorus - Yup and away! Yup and away! ... 3. Song - Strander and Chorus - The ancient guy of days gone by had never a wise physician... 4. Song - Blazes and Eskimo Girls - Pray tell me why the fossil man is said to be a jay? Why hand his job the merry ban, and say it doesn't pay? 5. Song of the Riffles - Dick Atwater and Chorus - Now tell me the stories of fame and of glories, relate me the legends of old... 6. Song - Arlee - When first I meet this party of the Second Part: what then? Now suppose him a gentleman, born to the school... 7. Glittering Gold Song - Arlee, Mrs. Good-Better-Best and Strander - The strongest kind of hint now is from all I can see, gleaming, glittering ... 8. Duet - Dick and Arlee - A thistle, faint with thirst, beheld a rainbow burst in glory 'gainst the sky's far off recesses... 9. Song - Pete and Men - The Kings of old in pride of name displayed a family tree, whereon was drawn in glowing fame my master's pedigree... 10. Finale Act I - Yup and away, yup and away, there's gold for him who hustles; Yup and away, yup and away, good luck to him who rustles... Act II - Arlee Easton's bungalow at Nome. New Year's Eve. 11. Unaccompanied Male Chorus - There is gold along the rivers, there is gold along the trails, there is gold in old Alaska's bed of frost... 12. Song - Arlee, with Men - When I am wed I'll not indulge in curtain lectures grim; instead I shall adapt myself to Hubby's ev'ry whim... 13. Song - Strander and Chorus - There was once a foolish steward on a baron's wide estate, and this steward had a passion for precision... 14. Song - Mrs. Good-Better-Best and Chorus - When just a lass of seventeen I married Jasper Good, who soon disclosed how false had been... 15. Song - Totem and Chorus - Now once upon a time there was a very happy nation, where all the time was summer-time and ev'ry day vacation... 16. Song - Atwater and Ensemble - When a man is in love there is only one name in the calendar, Cupid for him... 17. Song and Chorus (soloist unspecified) - Within a distant Arctic glade, a doting Eskimo made love unto an Arctic maid, in forty feet of snow... 18. Song - Atwater and Male Chorus - From the trail my love took wing to you; from the gravel gold I bring to you... MUSICAL NUMBERS (programme) 1. Prelude — Introduction — Finale 2. Opening Chorus Yup and Away - Pete, Chorus 3. The Trouble Tree - Smallberry, Chorus 4. The Fossil Man - Teddy, Eskimo Girls 5. Song of the Riffles - Richard, Ensemble 6. Party of the Second Part - Arlee 7. Glittering Gold - Arlee, Lydia, Smallberry
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